Friday, December 28

BIG THANKS to TG for recording the show and SUPER DUPER THANKS to
dB’s Fan for the share!

Highlights: A fired-up dB’s play a rowdy New Year’s Eve
show — a perfect way to ring in any New Year. (Dig those nutty noisemakers!)
During the show, Peter announces (for the first time in public?) that I.R.S.
Records has signed The dB’s and that a new album will be recorded and released
in 1987.

Gene models the kind of hat all well-dressed New Year’s Eve revelers should wear (ie, a sideways Like This jacket!)

SAMPLE: "Love Is for Lovers (Raleigh 1986)"

01 Any Old Thing

02 She Got Soul

03 Auld Lang Syne -- Never Say When

04 Rains Around Here

05 Lonely Is as Lonely Does

06 Not Cool

07 Never Before and Never Again

08 A Better Place

09 Today Could Be the Day

10 White Train

11 I Lie (very end cut, faded)

12 New Gun In Town

13 Change With the Changing Times

14 Amplifier

15 Love Is for Lovers

16 Witchi-Tai-To (Jim Pepper cover; Will sings lead)*

17 A Spy In the House of Love

18 Why Don't We Do It In the Road?

*16
is a traditional Native American peyote chant set to music (leave it to Will to
find something that cool &include it in a dB’s show...)

Friday, December 21

BIG THANKS to the stations & other media outlets that
broadcast these (plus TheBynumite for the video of “Write Back”)!

My holiday gift to you, dear blog followers, is a collection of the
best-sounding and best-performed live songs played and sung by The dB’s in
2012. I wanted to post something to commemorate this amazing year for the guys,
releasing an album of new songs as well as playing dozens of live shows. I
think you’re gonna really like this one... (Please leave a comment to let me know
what you think)

The dB’s play Le Poisson Rouge in NYC, June 2012

photo by hulaedwyn via Flickr

ABOUT THIS COLLECTION: Even though
there wasn’t enough material for a concert-length set, I decided to sequence this as
if it were a live performance — with the end of one song flowing as smoothly as possible into the next. The collection begins and ends
with recordings from my favorite dB’s show of 2012, the band’s triumphant
“World Café Live” appearance for WXPN in Philadelphia on the Friday of Labor
Day Weekend. (I slightly prefer the audience recording I posted HERE; it’s 2
songs longer and you get a better feel for the atmospherics than with the web stream). The sound quality on
these and all the others in the collection is pretty much pristine.

Oh yeah, as
a special this-time-only bonus, I’m posting this in lossless as well as MP3.

REPERCUSSION: Chris played bass and collaborated in
other ways with Alex Chilton in the late 1970s. [See the page at this blog describing the many connections between Chris, Alex and The dB's].Since 2010,
Chris has been organizing and leading live orchestral performances of Big
Star’s Third. Mitch Easter is
one of the players in the core ensemble.

The Guardian published a most excellent, in-depth preview of the show, quoting Chris, Mitch and many others involved in the project. Recommended, and it's HERE. Also a great Q&A with Chris about Alex Chilton from Uncut is HERE at the Big Star Third site.

Enjoy 3 pro-shot videos by Creato Destructo from a Big Star Third Live performance in 2010Kanga Roo

Friday, December 7

Repercussion: Mitch Easter produced the 1989 Love Tractor album Themes from Venus, and members of Love Tractor were some of the pioneers of the Athens, GA indie music scene, along with B-52s, Pylon and (of course) R.E.M.

What kind of photos would you expect

from a group named “Love Tractor”?!?

BIG THANKS to the taper, original uploader and those who posted the videos from which I ripped the audio...

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